[tac_plus] Re: How to stop tacplus logging to /var/log/syslog?

[john heasley]

Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:22:18PM +1000, Andy Saykao:
> Thanks for the man page John.
> 
> I have a slight dilemma now. I did what you suggested and got tacplus
> to log to news (logging=news), but after having re-read your email and
> finding that no matter what I do, it will always continue to log to
> syslog, I removed the lines from tac_plus.conf and syslog.conf and
> reverted things back to the way it was originally.  Now I am not
> getting any auth logs being sent to the tac_plus.log file??? I've
> restarted both the tac_plus and sysklogd daemon.
> 
> All I see is in the tac_plus.log file is the daemon starting up...
> 
> Fri May 14 12:10:29 2010 [4744]: Reading config
> Fri May 14 12:10:29 2010 [4744]: Version F4.0.4.19 Initialized 1
> Fri May 14 12:10:29 2010 [4744]: tac_plus server F4.0.4.19 starting
> Fri May 14 12:10:29 2010 [4745]: Backgrounded
> 
> root at tacplus-1# ps aux | grep tac
> tacplus   4746  0.2  0.0   2388   612 ?        S    12:10   0:00
> /tac_plus/bin/tac_plus -C /tac_plus/etc/tac_plus.conf -d 16
> 
> Any ideas why this is happening now and how to fix it?

My guess would be permissions or file location.  see config.log for the
value of TACPLUS_LOGFILE or tac_plus.conf(5).  its normally in /var/log.

> Thanks.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:19:58PM +1000, Andy Saykao:
> >> Sorry John, I don't see where to set this to in the tac_plus.conf file???
> >
> > tac_plus.conf(5)
> > ? ? ? logging
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Specifies the syslog(3) facility used. ? By ?default, ?logs ?are
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ?posted to the daemon facility.
> >
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?logging = <syslog_fac>
> >
> >> > it logs to daemon by default. ?change it to something like news in
> >> > tac_plus.conf and use news.none in the syslog.conf line. ?but it always
> >> > logs to syslog.
> >> >
> >